Shamwow! Watch this hilarious infomercial that aired last year in 2008. Hello? Do you know what year we are on? Basically if you try and analyze the cost of making this commercial it is going to be so cheap. All you need is rent some high definition (maybe not even) camcorder with a camera man and get your product with the examples such as a carpet and waterbowl. Go use someone’s kitchen and make it look so generic just for the commercials. Then have some noob who does video editing to do it. Bam! I’m telling you that they probably spent less than $1,000. Hell! I can even do that for low cost. The only expensive thing is actually getting the ad on air. Now that one is going to burn a hole.

So what does this have to do with affiliate marketing? Commercials are out of my budget!! LOL of course it is because if it was in your budget you would be making a shamwow commercial. I see that this commercial sticks out from the rest and makes it way through in being so unique. The emotion on this man’s face just makes you want to buy it. Its a very simple commercial but I’m telling you that this commercial has probably made more sales than the current infomercials.

Clickbank.com is a place to promote ebooks and things like this. Its mostly per sale and commision. Actually it is per sale, not by leads. So you see many affiliates making ebooks and having them promote in this. Instead of having it on video they use a huge landing page. They show graphs, images, powerpoint slides, just to promote at the highest level. Affiliates seem to always use a steam of media to promte the products. They get a voice to say the main points of the product to promte it throuhg sound. Then they might even post a youtube video on the top the demeonstrate what they are selling. This is a very popular tactic and hopefully make money. However to wrap things up, we can say the Shamwow! is unique and instead of thinking and making the best looking landing page, go try something very simple for once!

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Ringtones was a very saturated market and the people who made money would be the ones who started it back then when the niche was top secret. Now everyone is starting to promote it. A word of caution though, ringtones is not for newbies. When I was a super noob, I started off with ringtones. So this will be one of my earning screenshots but will not be my last. The past few months I have not been working online very productive. I have just been trying to get through life since everyone is broke nowadays. I’m just focusing on school right now.
 

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So if you are not lazy unlike thousands of people out there, I can teach you a thing or two on how to create one.

A Landing page is basically the same set up on how you would show people what you are offering. For this post I won’t go over what the contents are but I will go over in detail how to at least set one up. There are so many ways and this is the way I have mastered.

Things You Need

1) Adobe Photoshop w/ image ready

2) Dreamweaver (doesn’t matter which version)

3) Ftp (I recommend Fireftp for ease of use)

4) Domain / Host

5) Your Brain

First of all you need a domain and a host. I can hook you up with a good deal. I’m suppose to make around $100 with every referral but since I help everyone a lot I’m going to use up the $100 on your guys. (Free domains + disk space with package). Domain is the name of your web site. So my domain name is obviously “uselessaffiliate.com”. Domains are important because if you are selling laptops you would NOT want “potato.com”. Maybe depending on your niche you can use “laptopsonline.com”. I just threw those examples so don’t worry about clicking or checking. Domains are cheap but make sure you don’t get all those extras. Unless you are running some major web site with tons of traffic, you don’t need most of the extras. So don’t spent more than $8 for a domain. Hosting is next. This is where the domain is going to be hosted. This is basically where all your files will be located. This will normally take a day or two for everything to be approved / hosted. But for me I can set this domain and hosting in under 24hours.

Next is the page itself. You can use adobe photoshop to make a page. Select the size you want. I normally use 800 x 600 as a landing page. Make your design and have your banners , header..etc. etc. Make CLICKABLE BUTTONS which is where people will click and see your offer page. Something like “click here” wouldn’t be a good idea. . We will take ringtones. Select Carrier : att , verizon. Make a button for att and verizon and people will click it since that is what they will be looking for.

This is a very basic landin page

BTW i got the image off my old blog

Following me so far? Now flatten image (don’t really have to) and move to image ready on photoshop. I wish I had the time to post pics but I’m short right now. Get your Slice Tool. Slice the area where people will be clicking. So slice around the att , verizon buttons you just made. Good ? Now “save optimized as..” html / images.

Good job you made it this far. Open up dreamweaver and open the saved file. It should be a .html file. In dreamweaver you can edit your web site title under the codes. I should go in deep details with this but you will end up getting bored and click the “x” on your browser. Dreamweaver is where you can add all the codes you want and text. All set? Now save in dreamweaver. Make sure the web page is index.html. When you do this, it will tell the browser to open up that file and load everything. There has been so many times where people don’t do it and get an error. Everything is up but the browser will search the directory and we like.. uh-oh no index.html and will error.

Open up firefox and go to fireftp. This is where logins sucks. You will get many values and you will be like WTF is ftp. Well for ftp just use ftp.yourwebsite.com. Username and password is the username you given access to the web site. This step is hard for most people but you just have to go back and remember what the ftp access account you set up was. Now you should had been able to connect. Under the web site folder which is “yourwebsite.com” open it. Now drag your index.html and images in that folder. MAKE SURE that you upload in public_html but if you don’t have it just upload it to the root or where the FTP takes you. This is just a common problem that messes everyone up because of different hosing.Open another window or tab in firefox and see if your web site loads. It should had loaded if not there is like 100s of things to check but usually its not a problem. As long as its index.html.

And there you VERY VERY basic FAQ on how to make a landing page..

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It seems that my new landing page was working properly. But 2/3 of the campaign was through a directory link so I can test out a new landing page. So I have tested 2 landing pages at once. 1/3 was on my main site which proved that it was able to convert and the other was through a directory www.uselessaffiliate.com/(landingpage here.html). So 2/3 of the clicks was going to the directory and it was going to a 404 page!! Affiliate Marketers worst nightmare!. So the 1/3 was getting traffic but the majority was in my new landing page in the directory. As of right now I’m trying to fix all my links and make sure they work properly. I also found out that in that move, I also messed up my tracking. I made a new campaign and multiple ad groups so all the links are all the same and that was the cause.

I hope that made sense to everyone. I’m like half asleep right now and in a state of panic.

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A long tailed keyword is a chain of keywords that has about 3-5 keywords. For example, if you were promoting acne, you would use :

1. How to treat acne
2. Best acne medicine for teenagers
3. remove blackheads with best medication
4. Best medicine to treat blackhead
5. free proactive trial

Those are just a few examples. So why wouldn’t you just use “treat acne”, or “acne medicine”. This has to do with the type of customers you are looking for. In PPC you don’t want to waste your money on people who are just researching acne. The customer has to be someone who has a potential of buying the product.

In reallife situations, lets say we go into a car dealership. So I walk in and you walk in with me. I talk to the sales rep and ask him I want that White BMW Z4 in the corner. So simple enough because I know what I want and he has a high potential to make a sale. After I buy my car you talk to the sales rep and ask him “I need a car”. In order for him to help you as much as possible hes going to ask, what kind of car? what color? you want a sports car? do you want 4 doors?. ETC. So now hes refining your search and you have a small potential of giving him a sale because you are not targeting what you want. Maybe you just came there to test drive every single car but don’t buy anything.

I hope the gives a bigger picture on the types of keywords you might need. Don’t get me wrong the short term keywords are good too if you have some money to burn.

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Well it helped me a lot and I talked to the creator. He could had made a lot of money off this but he made it free so the least I can do is post it on my blog.
 
CTR (Click Through Ratio) - The amount of clicks divided by the total number of visits. You want this number as high as possible. The CTR is traffic goes to search for your web site and it’s the amount of how many of them clicked to get into your web site. In simple words, out of XX many people, what is the ratio that would click a link.
 
EPC (Earnings Per Click) - The earnings per 100 clicks. It would be nice to see this one the product you are selling because it shows if there is potential in the product or not. Every 100 there will be an average that the traffic is turned into sales.
 
Commission – The amount of revenue that an affiliate earns that’s paid by the publisher. It can be a lead or a sale. Most of the time, commission at the sales level is always going to be a certain %. However in lead it is a fixed value.
 
Recurring Commissions – Commission that is paid to an affiliate if a customer pays for reoccurring costs. For example, phone service, internet hosting, domains.
 
Unique Click – A click that is new to the web site or web page. It is tracked by IP address.
 
ROI (Return on Investment)- As affiliate marketers, we use this as a main guide to see if we are profiting in a campaign. We as pay per click marketers, pay for each click if somebody clicks. We are hoping that the Costs of clicks is less than the amount of commission we will earn. So Revenue – Total Click Expense = Net gain / Net loss.
 
Residual Earnings / Residual Income – We love this terms because when you market online, you get the joy of having this type of income. It is the income that is made by an affiliate that keeps on reoccurring for a certain period of time if not, for life.
 
Super Affiliates – I hope one day I become one. This is the top 1% of affiliates that are earning a large sum of money.
 
Impression – The amount of times an advertisement like a banner was viewed.
 
Minimum Payout – The amount of revenue that is required to get paid by the affiliate program. Once minimum payment is reach the affiliate has to wait for the ending payment period to request payroll.

 
Net 15 Pay - This is common practice of many affiliate programs. As you occur revenue and you reach minimum payout and the end of the payment period, they pay you 15 days later.
 
NET 30 Pay – As you occure revenue and minimum payout is reached by the end of the payment period, you get paid 30 days later
 
Email Marketing – The method to lure customers into purchasing a product or offer through the use of email service. In my opinion this does NOT work well and usually marked as SPAM.
 
SEO (Search Marketing Optimization ) – The process of creating a purpose on the internet! Basically the point of SEO is to get to the top 10 rank of that niche on google.
 
Domain Name – The name of a web site that represents itself on the internet. Think of it has somebody’s name. For example : Uselessaffiliate.com is my name name
 
Domain Hosting – The place where a Domain name is directed to become active. The hosting is like the body and life of the domain name.
WOW that was a lot..however I will be updating this as time goes by. If there is anything wrong please let me know.

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The answer is YES and NO. The reason why I didn’t get tracking was 1) I did not know how to get tracking and 2) That was not my goal. I had a goal of “making my first few sales”. So it doesn’t matter and I just threw my eggs in the basket with no names or color. So if the eggs fell I made some $ but I didn’t know which fell. I was being skeptic and didn’t think you were able to make money in this certain amount of time. For me the goal was 1 week = 1-3 Leads. It was a small goal / step but my return would be huge. The return was not the money but the inspiration. My first Night this is what happened.

Went to sleep at 3am (12/6/2008). Landing page was up, Traffic was high bid, I added about 100-120keywords. The keywords were just random but I handpicked it and made sure I was on top of everyone. My alarm goes off around 9am. Well there goes about 5 hours of sleep. I was going to go back to sleep but instead I checked my earnings. DING DING DING. One lead. I broke even though but no profit. WHO CARES! CONGRATZ ,You proved to yourself you are able to make money by sleeping. I was wide awake and I was about to jump around like a maniac. The logic behind this was, if you are able to make a lead you can multiply it after and tweak things to make even more money. 1*1 = 1 , 1*2 = 2. Multiplication does not LIE. So fast forward to the next few days.

Amazing isn’t it ? Basically I was broke on Dec 5th, 2008. Then I made profit on Dec 07th, 2008. WOW thats really fast. If you guys only knew how i felt it was crazy. So now I am busy tweaking all my campaigns and getting better landing pages and CTRs. I have a small amount of profit but when I know how to do it, it should not stop me from becoming my dreams. I have been so into my little online business that I added a goal, calendar, quotes, timesheet on my wall. Whatever it takes to focus just do it. In order to succeed you need to have short / long term goals. Some can be nearly impossible to reach but make sure you attempt to reach it..

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Bum Marketing is all about domination of a niche. You try to dominate all the web sites in that particular niche to make you show up in the first page of google. How this works is simple, you write an article> post it on an article submitter such as ezinearticles.com> drive traffic to your site> make money. Pick a niche that you know all about and branch it off. So if you were selling couches, you would have to write about everything about them from the color, fabrics, covers, etc. Write an article and submit it in ezine. Once you got it down they will start to review it for the content which can take up to a week. Make sure you put your web site on it. Ezine requires users to have a web site so you can not directlink.

One your article is up, you will get a spike of traffic in the next few days. Hopefully they will convert. One article is not enough. What you want to do is make 2-3 articles a day and dominate everyone in that niche. It may seem a lot but once you get about 100+ articles on that niche, you have a greater chance to dominate.

Last Words : Find a Niche that is unsaturated.

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